Reflector and lamp support



Patented Oct. 23, 1923.

RICHARD S. BRADLEY, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

REFLECTOR, AND LAMP SUPPORT.

Application filed September 6, 1922. Serial No. 586,482.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD S. BRADLEY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and Stateof California, have invented a new and Improved Reflector and Lamp Support, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in lighting fixtures, and has particular reference to a reflector and lamp support.

An object of the invention is to provide a support for a reflector and incandescent lamp, which will permit of the lamp and reflector being adjusted to various positions whereby the light from the lamp may be utilized to the best advantage.

Another object is to provide a support of the above character, which is simple in con struction, easy to manufacture and effective in carrying out the purpose for which it is designed.

The above and other objects will appear more clearly from the following detail description when taken in connection with the accompanying drawing which illustrates a preferred embodiment of the inventive idea.

In the drawing-- Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating one position which the lamp and its reflector may be caused to assume;

Figure 2 is a similar view showing another position of the lamp and its reflector; and

Figure 3 is a sectional view through the reflector showing the manner of attaching the same to the support and of connecting the lamp to the reflector.

The support which comprises one of the essential features of the invention is preferably formed of a single length of wire which is bent upon itself and provided with loops 4 intermediate the ends thereof, which form an opening through which a depend ing lamp cord'5 extends when the lamp 6 and reflector 7 are in the position shown in Figure 1. One free end of the support is twisted around the other end thereof, as indicated at 8, and said other end 9 is bent as best illustrated in Figure 3 to provide a portion 10 which extends through an opening 11 in the central portion of the reflector 7, said opening being formed by striking out portions of the material of which the reflector is made. A short strand of wire or other material 12 may be-employed to secure the reflector to the support and this wire 11 is wound about the parts 9 and 10 of the support and secured about the twisted portion 8 thereof, as clearly shown in Figure 3.

At another intermediate point of the support the wire is bent to form a loop 13 which provides an opening of sufficient size to receive the reduced end of the lamp socket 141 so as to aid in maintaining the lamp and socket in a fixed-relative position with respect to the reflector. In order to securely maintain the lamp in this fixed position the reflector is provided adjacent its periphery with an opening 15 for receiving the small point or projection 16 usually formed upon the outer end of an incandescent lamp. When this point is engaged in the opening 15 and the reduced end of the socket 1 1 is held between the portions of the support forming the loop 13, the lamp is securely maintained in its fixed position with respect to the reflector so that the light from the lamp will be properly reflected in accordance with the position of the reflector itself.

Provision is made for supporting the reflector and lamp, as shown in Figure 2, so that the rays from the lamp will be reflected downwardly. To this end the wire forming the support between the loops 4 and the twisted portions 8 is bent so that the strands engage each other, as indicated at 17, to form a clamping means for receiving the cord 5 and thereby raising the reflector 7 to a substantially horizontal position with the lamp 6 in the same relative position with respect to said reflector that the same assumes when connected thereto as shown in 2 Figure 1.

The support and reflector may readily be disconnected from the lamp by first disconnecting the projection 16 from the opening 15 and then unscrewing the lamp 6 from i in fixed relation with respect to said reflector.

2. In a support of the class described a single length of Wire bent upon itself to provide angularly disposed portions and loops intermediate the ends thereof, through one of which loops a lamp cord may be extended and the other of which forms an extremity of the support and receives an end of a lamp, said lamp being spaced from the first named loop and a reflector carried by the other end of said support and arranged in close proximity to said lamp.

3. A support of the class described formed with a single length of wire bent upon itself to provide loops intermediate 'the'ends thereof, certain of said loops being adapted to have a lamp cord passed therethrough, a reflector carried by one end of said support, said reflector and one of said loops cooperating to support a lamp in fixed relation With respect-to said reflector, and clamping means formed by portions of said wire adjacent the first named loops for engaging said lamp cord to support said reflector in substantially horizontal RICHARD S. BRADLEY position. 

